Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Koichi Wago

55Patents
10h-index
51Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 9, 1999 → Dec 30, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6949199B1 Heat-transfer-stamp process for thermal imprint lithography Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US8076013B2 Magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium manufacturing method, and magnetic disk Physics 79 Active
US7833639B2 Magnetic recording medium and method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium Physics 75 Active
US8367228B2 Magnetic recording medium having patterned auxiliary recording layer and method for manufacturing such magnetic recording medium Physics 73 Active
US6440520B1 Patterned magnetic recording disk with substrate patterned by ion implantation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6869557B1 Multi-level stamper for improved thermal imprint lithography Physics 44 Expired
US6757116B1 Disk biasing for manufacture of servo patterned media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US7294294B1 Surface modified stamper for imprint lithography Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US6617012B1 Styrene-acrylonitrile as a resist for making patterned media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6853514B2 Method for measuring PES noise of servo patterned media Physics 13 Expired
US8308964B2 Planarization method for media Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US7028743B1 High field contrast magnetic stampers/imprinters for contact patterning of magnetic media Electricity 10 Expired
US7830775B2 Writeable optical recording of multilevel oriented nano-structure discs Physics 8 Active
US7036209B1 Method of simultaneously forming magnetic transition patterns of a dual side recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6838227B2 Polystyrene as a resist for making patterned media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7378028B2 Method for fabricating patterned magnetic recording media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US7218466B1 Contact printing of magnetic media with mechanically reinforced and/or gas venting stamper Physics 6 Expired
US6758664B1 Self-leveling stamper module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7448860B2 Surface modified stamper for imprint lithography Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7351484B2 High field contrast magnetic stampers/imprinters for contact patterning of magnetic media Electricity 5 Expired
US7642041B2 Rotary apertured interferometric lithography (RAIL) Physics 4 Active
US10310182B2 Patterned plasmonic underlayer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7459241B2 Rotary apertured interferometric lithography (RAIL) Physics 4 Expired
US9799362B1 Three dimensional data storage medium with a tuned recording layer Physics 3 Active
US8771529B1 Method for imprint lithography Physics 2 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.